[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich] page 13

Woolwich 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 3.

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TABLE No. 3.

Sample No.	Article.	Result of Analysis.	Result of Legal Proceedings.
490	Milk	10 per cent. of added water	Fined £3.
567	Milk	Small proportion of added water	—
568	Milk	5 per cent. of added water	Fined £1.
570	Milk	Small proportion of added water	—
574	Meat Pie	Boric Acid, 0.014 per cent.	—
592	Whisky	Excessive water, 5.2 per cent.	—
1	Milk	Small proportion of water	—
127 86	Egg Substitute Butter	Consisted of coloured baking powder, made from cornflour, rice flour, potato starch, yellow colouring and a bicarbonate-phosphate raising mixture. The articles were described as a "Perfect Substitute" for eggs. Since they did not contain the nutritious qualities of eggs and were unsuitable for many of the purposes for which eggs are used, this description is misleading. Water, 16.9 per cent.
109	Steak and Kidney Pie	1 per cent. of steak and no kidney	—
121	do., do.	3 per cent. of steak and no kidney	—
142	Gin	2.4 per cent. excess water	—
198	Meat Pie	Filled with paste made from flour and potatoes, flavoured with meat extract.	—
192	Tinned Roast Pork	Pork, 2 per cent.; cereal filling, 80 per cent.	Fined £2; Costs, £1 Is. Od.
197	Milk	1 per cent. of added water
219	Sterilised Milk..	1 per cent. of added water	—
220	Sterilised Milk..	1 per cent. of added water	—
221	Sterilised Milk..	1 per cent. of added water	—
258	Milk	1 per cent. of added water	—
393	Lemon Substitute	Contained citric acid, 1.46 gms ; Vitamin "C," 72 units; with lemon flavouring and colouring matter, dissolved in water, in one teaspoonful of the sample. The label claimed that one teaspoonful with five of water was equal to the juice of one lemon. The juice of one fresh lemon of aver-size normally contains citric acid, 3 gms.; Vitamin "C," 450 units; with sugars, mineral salts and other constituents.